326 SXNTOMIDiE. 



*717. Macrocneme hesione. 



Macrocvemc henone, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) ii. p. 239 (1888) ; Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Het. ii. p. 337, pi. 71. f. 3; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 129. 



9 . Elack ; anal tuft and ventral, surface of abdomen metallic 

 green. Fore wing purplish black ; terminal area greyish, with the 

 veins black ; a white point at base. Hind wing black, the costal 

 area purplish. Underside of fore wing with the terminal area 

 broadly white. 



Hah. Panama, Chiriqui (Trotsch). Exp. 34 millim. Type t in 

 Coll. Staudinger. 



718. Macrocneme nigritarsia, n. sp. (Plate XII. fig. 24.) 

 Macrocneme vitfaia, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 48 (nee Wlk.). 



d . Black ; antennae white at tips ; frons, vertex of head, tegula9, 

 shoulders, and raeso- and metathorax with blue and white spots ; 

 pectus and legs with patches of metallic blue : fore coxa3 and base 

 of femora behind with white spots ; abdomen with dorsal and lateral 

 blue stripes; the ventral valve edged with white. Fore wing with 

 a white point and some blue marks at base ; blue streaks in, above, 

 and below cell. 



2 . Abdomen with paired sublateral white spots on two medial 

 segments. 



Ab. 1. A female from Trinidad with white sublateral spots on 

 the four medial segments of abdomen. 



Ifab. Miixico, Ta.ha,5C0 (H. H. Smith) ; Guatemala (Champion), 

 (jrodman-Salvin Coll., 4^,15 type ; Trinidad, 1 $ . Eny. 

 36 millim. 



719. Macrocneme eaciis. 



Sphhix eacm, St oil, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 367. B (1781); Kirbv, Cat. Het. 



p. 126 

 Pse^tdomya errans, Hiibn. Verz. p. 124 (1827). 

 Mastigocera pusil/a, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 372 (1876) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 130. 



2 . Blue-black ; some bluish white at base of palpi, behind the 

 eyes, on tegulae and shoulders; pectus and sides of abdomen with 

 some metallic blue scales. Fore wing with a white point at base ; 

 the medial area suffused with bright blue. 



Hab. Surinam ; Amazons, Para (Bates), 2 $ , type pusilJa. 

 Exp. 32 millim. 



Genus MYDROPASTEA, nov. 



Type, M. alhicincta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned to just above vertex of head ; 

 antennae of male bipectinate, with rather long branches ; tibia with the spurs 



